The Champlin Foundations provides grants to nonprofit organizations, substantially all in Rhode Island, mostly for capital needs.
Leadership Rhode Island helps emerging leaders gain knowledge and access to resources.
New Roots Providence supports small organizations with seven focus areas: youth in danger of involvement with violence or gangs, people re-entering the community from prison, children of prisoners, families moving from welfare to work, people addressing substance abuse or addiction, people who are homeless, and elders in need. It does this through training, grants, and facilitating peer learning.
The Newport Initiative for Nonprofit Leadership is strengthens organizational capacity through workshops, training programs, and technical assistance devoted to staff and organizational development.
The Providence Public Library houses a core collection of Foundation Center materials, including the online Foundation Directory with information on more than 80,000 grantmakers.
The Rhode Island College Certificate Program in Nonprofit Studies trains nonprofit professionals.
Rhode Island Community Jobs is an email list of nonprofit and public interest job opportunities.
Serve Rhode Island provides volunteers with effective support and services, connects volunteers with nonprofits, and enhances the Rhode Island service community.
Social Venture Partners Rhode Island links engaged philanthropists with innovative nonprofits to strengthen their organizations through the launch of mission-related social enterprises.
The United Way of Rhode Island invests in four crucial areas: connecting more people to the services that can help them; building affordable homes and reducing homelessness; increasing job skills, and supporting success in school.
At this Bank of America website, nonprofit organizations can search and apply to nearly 70 foundations managed by the bank, included those that serve Rhode Island.
The Executive Service Corps of New England provides nonprofits with affordable management consultants.
The Technical Development Corporation is a consulting and research group dedicated to improving nonprofits’ business and management skills.
Third Sector New England provides capacity building services that help nonprofits and the nonprofit sector engage people in community and public life. Their
Executive Transitions Program places expert transition consultants and interim executive directors to help organizations strategize and search for new leadership.
The Alliance for Nonprofit Management is devoted to improving nonprofit management and governance. The Alliance holds a major annual conference and hosts a database of nonprofit consultants.
The American Society of Association Executives & The Center for Association Leadership produce conferences, publish journals, and provide tools and resources.
Arts in Crisis: A Kennedy Center Initiative provides planning assistance and consulting to struggling 501(c)(3) performing arts organizations throughout the US.
Board Source strengthens boards of directors through consulting, publications, and tools.
The Bridgespan Group provides strategy consulting and shares knowledge. Their Bridgestar initiative helps nonprofits nurture strong leadership teams.
CompassPoint Nonprofit Services is a consulting, research, and training organization providing nonprofits with management tools, strategies, and resources to lead change in their communities. Its research has had a major effect on nonprofit practices nationwide.
The ePhilanthropy Foundation helps large and small nonprofit organizations utilize the best Internet practices to build relationships and raise money. The Foundation offers more than 50 online courses.
The Foundation Center, with 600 supporting foundations, is the nation’s leading resource connecting nonprofits to grantmakers. The Center maintains five regional libraries of grant programs.
The Nonprofit Center at Idealist.org is packed with news and innovative programs.
IKnow is a clearinghouse for links to web sites on nonprofit information.
Independent Sector is committed to research, national advocacy, nonprofit support, and convening nonprofit leaders.
Innovation Network helps nonprofits and funders measure results, make informed decisions, and create lasting social change. They provide consulting, training, and web-based tools.
The Nonprofit Risk Management Center provides assistance and resources for nonprofit organizations.
Nonprofits Count, a program of the Nonprofit Voter Engagement Network, will engage nonprofits to promote a complete 2010 census count through contacts they have and services they provide.
St. Paul Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits provides management consulting services to enhance the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations in Minnesota. Their website includes tools and a comprehensive inventory of national support organizations.
The
TCC Group prorovides strategic planning, program development, evaulation, and management consulting services to nonprofits.
Nonprofit leaders can gauge their organization’s effectiveness and identify areas for improvement by completing a self-assessment. There are many excellent self-assessment tools available for free over the web, including those described below.
INE Organizational Capacity Assessment Tool 
The Rhode Island Foundation Initiative for Nonprofit Excellence Organizational Capacity Assessment Tool is a derivative product of the Capacity Assessment Tool created by McKinsey and Company for Venture Philanthropy Partners (www.vppartners.org) and published in Effective Capacity Building in Nonprofit Organizations (2001).
The Marguerite Casey Foundation Organizational Capacity Assessment Tool
Recommended for medium to large nonprofits
This tool is shorter and simpler than the McKinsey tool. A useful diagnostic, it helps nonprofits identify strengths and challenges and establish capacity-building goals.
United Way of Minneapolis Area Nonprofit Indicator
Recommended for small to medium nonprofits
This extensive checklist developed by Authenticity Consulting LLC can assess an organization’s board, legal, human resources, volunteer management, planning, finances, and fundraising capacity. The Indicator can be completed online.
Guide to Evaluate Communications 
Created by Asibey Consulting and published by The Communications Network, this guide "walks users through a nine-step process for creating plans for monitoring and measuring their communications."
Free fundraising thermometer
This online tool from school-fundraisers.com allows you to track and display your group's fundraising progress online.
Social networking and discussion forums
All for Good
A service to help you find volunteer events in your community and share those events with others.
Big Tent
Big Tent combines social networking features with group management tools to help communities share, communicate, and organize online and in-person.
Facebook for Nonprofits
A resource for nonprofits and other organizations for social good, Facebook for Nonprofits works to help bring positive change to the world.
NING
A technology platform for people to join and create new social networks based on their interests and passions. Ning also integrates with other social media services.
Socializr
Free online invitations, party planning, and event sharing.
Twitter
A real-time short messaging service for individuals and organizations to connect with others.
WiserEarth
An online community connecting people, nonprofits, and businesses working toward a just and sustainable world.
Photo/video
Flickr
Online photo and video management and sharing application that combines visual storytelling and social networking.
Slide Share
Individuals and organizations upload presentations to share ideas and connect with others; others can tag, download, or embed presentations into their blogs and websites.
YouTube Nonprofit Program
This video site allows organizations - through a designated nonprofit channel - to highlight needs and impact.
YouTube Video Volunteers
Enables connections between nonprofits with video needs and skilled video makers who can help.
Web communities
All Top
An "online magazine rack" of nonprofit news.
Change.org
Serves to inform movements for social change around currently-important issues.
Social Actions
An open source database of actions people can take on issues ranging from volunteer opportunities to micro credit loans.
How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
Nonprofit consultant Beth Kanter's blog to share ideas, links, and resources about the challenges and strategies of social media for nonprofits.
Netwits Think Tank: Social Media for Nonprofits
Up-to-date social media resources.
Web tools
Google Analytics
Allows you to track and measure your website traffic including unique visitors, most viewed pages, how long visitors spend on your site, and much more.
Citizen Speak is a free email advocacy service for grassroots organizations.
The Community Technology Center Network is a national membership organization of more than 450 independent community technology centers where people get free or low-cost access to computers and computer-related technology.
Google for Nonprofits has a number of tools to help nonprofit organizations promote their work, operate effectively, and raise money.
NPower NY is a regional office of a national nonprofit that provides affordable assistance to nonprofit organizations, enabling them to strategically use technology that supports their mission.
TechSoup is dedicated to helping nonprofits enhance productivity through sustainable technology. The site offers free information, resources, support, and a portal to donated and discounted technology products.
Bridgestar articles
Bridgestar is an initiative of the Bridgespan Group, which provides a nonprofit management job board, content, and tools designed to help nonprofit organizations build strong leadership teams and individuals pursue career paths as nonprofit leaders.
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Building Movement Project The Project works to strengthen the role of U.S. nonprofit organizations as sites of democratic practice and to advance ways nonprofit can significantly contribute to building movement for progressive social change. Visit this site for resources on shared leadership and other alternative leadership structures as well as resources on generational change in nonprofit leadership.
Initiative for Nonprofit Talent and Leadership The Initiative aims to create a set of goals and strategies that will serve as the foundation for a national cross-sector effort to better prepare, train, and sustain leaders to constructively and collaboratively address the complex challenges our society faces. Visit this site for webinars, an online discussion forum, and other resources related to leadership development.
Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN) YNPN engages and supports future nonprofit and community leaders through professional development, networking, and social opportunities designed for young people involved in the nonprofit community. Visit this site to access free surveys and reports on the leadership development needs of the next generation of nonprofit leaders.
The Association for Community Organization & Social Administration – a membership organization of community organizers, nonprofit administrators, policy practitioners, and educators – links to websites on more than 25 capacity-building topics.
Capaciteria, sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, is a free service to help nonprofits find capacity-building resources.
The Free Management Library is one of the world’s largest collections of organizational leadership and management resources. The site also offers diagnostic tools.
The Nonprofit Gateway is a network of links to Federal government information and services.
The
Philanthropic Capacity Building Resources Database at the Human Interaction Research Institute describes almost 400 capacity-building programs.
Recommended reading by INE Faculty Member Frank Monti, CPA: The Accounting Game: Basic Accounting Fresh from the Lemonade Stand, by Judith Orloff and Darrell Mullis
Professional consultants can also help nonprofits in capacity-building. For a listing of local consultants who work with nonprofits, check out our consultant directory.
This article, Public Administration and the Impact Economy, looks at the emergent impact economy and the role public officials and nonprofit managers will have in it.